Father held after girl, 9, dies and three hurt in ‘camping trip’ to industrial park

Three people were rushed to hospital after a schoolgirl died on a family camping trip to Scotland.

The father has been arrested after emergency services rushed to Elliot Industrial Estate, Arbroath after concerns for wellbeing at around midnight on Monday.

The family, from West Yorkshire, had set up a small camp on the deserted estate close to a ‘picturesque’ beach in Arbroath, Scotland.

She was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where she was pronounced dead. Her death is being treated by police as suspicious.

A local, who drove past the scene, said she saw an electric car parked in the middle of the makeshift camp on the edge of an oil firm’s car park.

She said: ‘It was a two-man, pop-up tent that you’d get in a supermarket.

‘It wasn’t a substantial camping tent.

‘The parents looked like they were cooking food on an outdoor camping stove.

‘I thought it was pretty strange given there’s a beach two minutes away and that’s a lot more picturesque.’

A paper merchant with an office in the industrial park posted on Facebook: ‘We here at Squadron Prints offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends.

‘Our thoughts and prayers are also with everyone involved with this tragedy, the police, paramedics and others who assisted but also those who work on this industrial estate who had to deal with the shock whilst arriving to work.

‘Rest in peace little one – we will never forget you!’

A Scottish Ambulance spokesperson said: ‘We received a call at 23:53 on Sunday 2 August to attend an incident at Elliot Industrial Estate, Arbroath.

‘We dispatched four ambulance response vehicles to the scene and we transported four patients to Ninewells Hospital.’